yesterday
[ˈjɛstədeɪ]
The verdict
“yesterday” is uncommon German (frequency #74,208 among 67 “Y” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,208
- frequency rank, German
- 67
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gestern
Corpus desk
Index DE-yesterday · yesterday · German
yesterday · rank #74,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,208
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 67
- PHOTO-FINISH Wärmflasche
Nearest frequency peer: Wärmflasche (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „yesterday“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wächtersbach
Wächtersbach
25,796 corpus weight
- Wärmestrahl…
Wärmestrahlung
25,795 corpus weight
- Wärmflasche
Wärmflasche
25,794 corpus weight
- yesterday
yesterday
25,793 corpus weight
- Zahntechnik…
Zahntechniker
25,792 corpus weight
- Zauberkünst…
Zauberkünstler
25,791 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „yesterday“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yesterday |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈjɛstədeɪ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „yesterday“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
yesterday is uncommon German at frequency #74,208 among 67 “Y” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ˈjɛstədeɪ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gestern".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yesterday in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is yesterday, spelled Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1gestern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yesterday appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He arrived only yesterday.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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